The evening world. Newspaper, July 29, 1920, Page 19

THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1920 Servantless Housewives! Listen: IN JAPAN— The Maids Get $7.50 a Month They Come From Good Families They Dine With You Japanese Women Quit Once They Visit New ws Their Pretty Kimonos York, London or Paris By Fay Stevenson, Coprright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co (The New York Brening World), «6 HE Japanese women of ail Classes still wear their native costumes and are perfectly @ontent to do so until they have been ® New York, London or Paria. Then they discard the kimono for a crea- tion!" With a twinkle in his eye and a tolce which is decidedly boyish, de- wite the fact he is nearing middle age and the father of five children, T. Yajima, Assistant Manager of the Sumitomo Electric Wire and Cable Works of Osaka, Japan, and one of the leading business men >of his country, told me this, as we sat in the Pennsylvania Hotel and spoke of the modern Japanese woman, “My wife has never been abroad,” added Mr. Yajima, “and 1 am just well pleased! “The average woman tn Japan still “Then the Japanese housewife has no trouble in securing maids?” I asked. Mr. Yajima’s answer was to take & photograph from his pocket. “There ig a picture of my wife,’ three boys, two girls and two :nalde,” he said. “We have had those maids ever since our children were born. We pay them $7.50 @ month, They do all the hous.work, cook, sew, iron and even assist with the mending. It is & very easy thing to secure a mald in Japan and moreover ebe is frequently a girl'from a very good family, She expects to be well treated, to dine with the family and to éven sit with them during the evening. Asked the age at which the average Japanese girl marries, Mr. Yajima repliod between eighteen and twenty. He gald most every girl goes to high schoo] and {s taught English as the chief foreign language. “But the Japanese girl doesn't like A Typical Japanese Family Tl at Has NOT Been to New York, London or Paris. rn Ae Ree "MRS MAS YWAJIMA, AND TWO MAID S. CHILDREN” Wt RRONT ARE YOO, KOz0, KENZ9, HAT SO,4ND KA aid Ae AR. tO Old New York as Seen Through Young Eyes Old Chelsea, One of the Few Spots Dear to Sentimental New Yorkers, Retains Charm ow CHELS! & DICTURE OF 0 London Terrace, the Forerunner of Our Modern Apartments, Opened by Mayor and Brass Band. District Now Attracting Real Artists and Authors TODAY COTTAGES IN 2A™ STREET, PRESOANT: ee LD NEWYORK OF YESTERDAY Story and Pictures by Will B. Johnstone. JAMES ¥, EADIE ZZ yy HEAD OF THE OLDEST L ESTATE “tm im NEW YORK city (CHELSEA VILLAGE Copsright, 1920, ty The Press Publishing Oo. (The New York Brening World). LD Chelsea still has the charm O of old Chelsea. Sentimental Now Yorkers of fifty years ago can see the city of their day standing almost intact on the entire square bounded by 2id Street, Ninth Avenue, 24th Street and Tenth Avenue. The famous old row of buildings known as London Terrace fill the 234 Street side and backing this on 4th Street is the row known as Chelsva cottages, te Both rows stand well back from the street, wth yards containing grass. shrubs, hedges and trees, locust treos, so characteristic of old New York yards. ‘This unchanged equare is a green and delight gasis of quaintness amid tho desert of busy New York. “London Terrace was built seventy- five years ago, Mr. James P. Badie, head of the real estate firm of James N. Wells's Sons (“since 1335 at 191 Ninth Avenue”). “William Torrey und Cyrus Mason, epeculative build of those days, launched the project in 1845 and the thinks her silk kimono and beaded icave the fireside,” concluded Mr, Terrace was the finest suburban de- slippers very pretty, but once sho goes to America or France or Png- land for education or pleasure, off comes the Japanese attire and for- ever and ever she dons a gown and high heels.” “Tell me about the daily life of the woman in Japan,” I urged Mr. Yajima. "Are there many engaged in busi- ne “There are a few, but most of them think they must stay home and keep house,” was the prompt reply. "We have a few women {n factorica Yajima, “she prefers to work out as a maid rather than do factory work or gb into a stdre. We have a few women lawyers, a very few who have received doctor's degrees and scarcely any typists, It is al- most impossitic to use the typewriter in the Japanese language because of our 1,000 characters, and most of glish language, “To-duy there are young women studying countries, — The ils are men. 4 mumber of in all foreign come in Japan, especially in the textile back with modern ideas and clothes. factories. Many women are tele- They want to be active In life like phone operators and we heave many the American, Parisian and English Japanese giris who clerk in our shops women. In many cases th --what you call ‘shop girls.’ But a few years. Then they m most all of those girls are under down and become as domestic as their twenty. After that age you will find mothers,’ the Japanese gir] married or working "But they don't go back to the im a nice, comforta home as a od domestic.” ition! Mr. Yajima. By Roy IL. M* Carded. Covpright. 1929, by The va» Sablishing Co (Tue Now Yok Evoulug World) “ AN'T you come home early “You'd better get a policeman, if from the office to-day?” Wiillo's gang coming," sud) Mr, asked Mrs. Jarr in a tone but Ii be here as early as I that indicated he could tf he wanted 0, and please don't be al- to—any day, every ¢ speaking as though our litte "E guees 1 can," said Mr. Jar, a rowdy and a ruffian, Ho P * "° pirited Jad, to be sure, but “what's doing? pir 4 ved rround i ould Well,” suid Mrs, Jarr, “now that mite Gertrude didn’t go away as # s Lady Gwendolen swept threatened, and {t's W 4 birthday, P fx drawing root, While Lord Moruake bit hia lim with I'm going to let Ittle party this aft “Kida from the n asked Mr, Jan ughborhood t" “Oh, I suppose #0," suld Mrs Jagr, “They insiat on inviting ehildn know, That's the great trouble bring- UP Childven on a street Hike they make companions of the rabble. IL wanted them w give a litte affair for a aclect few, euch children as ttle Lionel Rosewater and or Imogene. Oh, L wish w ford to move from th a refined neigh? ‘The olticinen t to having Master 1. Misa Ta pane at asked Mr, Jarr, plaint of the prol The way you tlk men who play the terrible effect on our nust etop it!" replied iwively, “Wille auld if Lionel Rosowate wid played the p) came to bis party no he'd hit him on the nose! “Better not a," said Mr. Jawr. juet auoh & blow Mle art and pent.’* and that's w you to be home early, to on Willie and his particular playmates, and I will need »& them in order,” one to keep voxate Mite 4s tne writing for saying Mr eine: found the 1 bravely me,” eid Mra Tarr, “Lye things to wttend to. You eas an eye on the nd. hem enjoy themselves, wand our lito Emma ip to the piano and play ‘ for the little boys and & re any ahild here t the key to the front Ked Mr. Jarr, when 1 gone. he knew where it shildren, said Mr, Jarr. he 6 a foothall He drew # from his pooket and Inflated tt. “And here 1 these f 4 r balloona for the sO Ittle far as you Itke!"" And he stepped out and locked the Every was broken tn the nar- or Mut the plano, and that was bad!y #orate but the children of the nelg cod ane ati talking of what a lovely time they had at the party Mr, Jarr gave them, and are bere ng thelr parents ¢ pliente it if they can. ‘ velopment seen np to that time. “The formal opening was @ grand occasion, the Mayor of the city be- ing present ami band musio eniliv- ened the ceremony. “The novel development, the first on a large scale, ts similar to what is @ common occurrence im the Bronx or Flatibush to-day,” Murder will out! It would seem that at last we can fix the responst- bility for what has led to the great- est of atrocitics—our modern apar- ment buildings. The Torrey and Mason persons are the guilty ones. No minstrels’ rap- ture swells” for the ‘«peculative butidens" to-day, however; no Mayors or bands. “The Terrace and cottages.” Mr. Fadie went on tand on the old Clement C. Moore estate, Originally it was Chelsea farm, named after @ muburh of London, England, and ex- tanded from 19t) Street to Mth and from Eighth Avenue to the River, then at Tenth Avenue. The Moore manor house stood on a hill near Eighth Avenue and 23d Street, and there Moore wrote the celebrated poem ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.’ “In 1833 Mr. Moore was offered 40,000 for his farm and would have accepted it but for the advice of James N. Wells, the founder of this real emtate firm, We are the oldest real estate office In New York City. 1919. Our ledgers go back te “After taking Wel the property. thie office ever since. ¢ change in the Ter- G ted, of the cnowds that came through 234 Str when the popular way to go to Coney Island was by boat at West 2% Street ‘The listriat went down from its old class, but now it is com- ing back “A lony of literary and artistic ht up a large but retaining th {zing the Intertors exteriors, now School for lal Re- ah in located at N 471 West 28d Street, “The ¢ of Chelaea {s due to the n of Estimate solid. bic ‘Tenth A ¥. With thls protection assured y will ape, 800n building condi tions permit, handsome apartiner buildings springing wp here.and the old brownstone mansions recon structed into modern habitations.” The old ‘Th Meminary still surrounding ts ancient buildings in old Chelsea Square, At No, 361 West 2id Street ts an old mansion with @ history You might say St is the only “howse’ standing in 284: Str@et to-day, It sets back from the street behind a tall, Hudson , iron picket fence, A locust tree shades the circular driveway in the yard. Though buildings cramp its sides it still has an air of old magnificence. _ Onee occupied by the Pasteur In- stitute It now houses the Ancient Mystical Order of Rosae Crucis, whose Initiates claim it ag the source of Masonry, started 3,272 years ago in Egypt by Amenhotp IV. “This house was built for Jor Mansfield," said Richard Ward, Sec- retary of the order. Chelsea gossip explains that Josie was a celebrated vamp in the old days. She had many admirers and figured as the cause of a murder that stirred New Yorkers in the ‘70's as the Elwell case has stirred them to- day. Jim Fisk, partner of Jay Gould, and Edward Stokes were the principals, Stokes, the jealous rival of Fisk, shot and killed the Wall Street magnate at the olf Grand Central Hotel, Broadway and Bond Street, now the Broadway Central. “Lily Langtry, the actrens, the fam- ous ‘Jersey Lily,’ fascinator of King Edward VII, of England, lived in this house in the old days,” Mr. Ward continued. “I think she played tn the old Grand Opera House here, on Eighth Avenue and 28d Street. "Speaking of Langtry, I had a vist~ tor at the old mansion recently, He was an old man, tall, slender and aristocratic looking, plainly a fash- fonable beau of the old New York days, He wouldn't give me his name, this mysterious stranger, but stated that he had been one of the «reat train of admirers of the beautiful Langtry, “He wanted to see the old house again and wandered through the broad hallways and spacious rooms, After a thorough Inspection in which he seomed to revive pleasant recol- lections he still was unsatisfied about something. “Finally he asked me tt I knew of any secret entrance to the mansion from the rear. I told him there waa such an entrance and led him up- stairs to a window overlooking the back of the house. ‘There I indicated ther means of entering. A pass ay still exists opening into the property from the ‘Twenty-fourth Street side. The old man stood and looked down on this passageway and mused a moment and then sald, ‘The old house was alweys arowded in the old daya. I used to wonder where they came from. Now at last my curlosity is satisfied, So That's how they got in." Mr. Badie also spoke of the Lang- try house and told how the crowds of “rubbernecks” used to peer through the fron fe to feast their eyes on the beautiful English woman “This annoyed Langtry mo muob.” anid Mr. high board fence insi to gain some privacy the neighborhood and they held an indignation meeting and obtained an njunction ogainst her spite fenc: Badlie, ‘th This outraged Westchester Village will be de- scribed in the next article of thie printed on this page series, Thursday, Aug. 5. Newest Notes »Feldy Science An electric resistance coll warms the air in the intake manifold or carbureter of an automobile ongine nd enables it to be started quickly in cold weather, Bohemian chemists have perfected & how coating for wafety match boxes that ts lighter In wolgbt, 60 per cent, cheaper and more effective than any heretofore used An inventor 1s working on a rigid Aluminum dirigible balloon to be steam driven and depending for buoyancy on the lifting power of alr heated by kerosene burners. TRYING To Look Like A staeer CAR In Cert te “took tmmiina Wont AYOR Cyrus Perkins Walker of Delb! was notified Tuesday of his nomination te make the Mayoralty race on the regular Demo- cratio ticket. The ceremonies, con- ducted by the Women’s Betterment League at Hugus Hall, were begutiful in the main, but there was some ruc- tion which disturbed Mr, Walker very much. The Mayor thinks an effort ‘was made to belittle him in the eyes of the voters and, being of the old Walker fighting stock of Bean Centre, Kan., he intends to get to the bogpom of the matter. Promptress Pertle of the League presided and made the speech of not!- fication. “We have on this platform,” she began, “a great man.” . “Thank you, Promptress!" said the Mayor, calmly. “Walt till she tells who he is," said ® man's voice coming from the centre o* the hall, “Ahem!" Promptress Pertle went on. “I refer to our Honorable Mayor, Cyrus Perkins Walker.” “Somebody's bean spoofing tle jady,"" said the volee, Promptress Pertle paid no attention to the inter~ ruption. “T herewith notify him officially that he has been chosen by the Democrats to make the race to sucosed himself as Mayor,” she said, There were cheers and Mayor Walker arose to repl “Dear Democrats: he began, “T Turban of Velvet and Feathers PIQUANT) IN- DEED 18 THIS TURBAN OF BROWN VELVET COMBINED CHARMINGLY WITH PEATH- ERS. IT SUS GESTS THE AU- TUMN DAYS TO COME. Old Home of the Famous Josie Mansfield With Its Secret Entrance Still Standing. SECTION OF LONDON "TERRACE THe SEVENTY: Five -Y@ARS~ OLD GENESIS OF “THE MODERN A “e A. CAMOUFLAGED Locomorwe = 4 tO! AVENUE E olimy ring, the only visible part of Stick-in-the-Mud, ap- peared on the surface of the pond, and friend Sootypootypuft hopped nearer the edge of the water with his head cocked at a provoking angle “Oh, it's you, Is it?" came the deep votoe from the water's depth. “It is @ome time since I have had the honor of contemplating your'eleek black- ness.” “T am still comfortably alive, thank you, and may I inquire about the @tate of your interesting health? Are You beginning to feel the weight of your many years?” croaked the crow. “My health was never better; and what about the rheumatiam in your Jett wing?” “Oh, my rheumatism does not pre- vent my hoger Rage pal to the stare!" “You consider that an advantage?” old carp's voloe sounded ironical. ‘Not everybody cares to keep his nose in the mud," croaked the crow. “One does not need to star-gaze to * discover eternal vorities," was the muddy one's retort. “I'd Uke to know what eternal impudent tongues.’ “Oho! And does no one disturb you in your slimy bed?’ “No one dares!" and for a moment the old carp's snout disappeared, to reappear almost immediately, “No one dares?” asked the crow. “Le that, perhaps, because of the ex- traordinary awe that you spread around you?” “Awo js certainly th® natural feel- tng that I inspire; awe and respect oi and admiration,” “Have you ever inspired love in . any one?” And Pansy could have sworn that the old crow winked at he What have I got to do with love?” eame the voice of the carp in decid- edly shocked tones. “That is exactly what I am won- dering.” “And you, may I inquire?’ scoffed the water-hermit. “Do you imugine ‘that ewoh twinkling star ts idiot enough to fall in love with your pointed beak and funereal plumage and yout none-too-entrancing tones?” “O poor little star, You're too far, too fart To gucss all the charm Unmixed with alarm Of my old black cloak And my croaking throat, Why cannot you know ‘That there, down below, Sticks an old fellow All covered with slime? It's really @ crime That your smile divine Is never to shine Upon one who keeps In the watery deops His snout in the mud, © star, little star!" aeng Sootypootypuff, in a voice re- @embling the grating of ungreased cartwhoels. “You creck my ear drums,” tested ick-In-the-Mud, >; back his alimy snout said Promptress Pertle, Pat) Hey OE eee Man eae rapping with her gavel. * ohuckled the enemy, “My lady friends are all estimable == people,” said the Mayor, “Lemme go with you next time you take a car of hogs to Kansas City,” said the man, TMBNT BLOSK, >) 7 - slg 1 Le 10M ~2A™SY. a VEnriar= ‘TODAY (SLEEPY VILLAGS BFRECT) am giad to see so many of my lady friends hore and"—~ “They toll me you got @ lot more in Kansas City,” saig the man who was interrupting. "Ob! for goodness’ sakel chirped Mrs, Skeeter O'Brien, hiding her face with her fan “Silenc pro- drawing drums, The Mayor was exasperated. “I accept this nomination,” he shouted. Then he aske Brown ‘n the hall?" "THirht here, sir!" said the officer. “Arrest that mani" MAN was complaining bitterly the other day of another who h used injur: The Constable New at his prey. A work Phair at rarer iat eB fight followed in which Brown waa ing him, ‘He's a sycophant, that's knocked down four times, but he suo- What he is, and there are a great ceeded in inducing the disturber— eny Ree, ores to-day.” he con- Heck Oliphant, an anti-Walker Dem- “1 wigh they could afl have a inbet corat—to leave the hall by offering to on them so people would know tha@ buy him a dozen ripe bananas, Mayor Howaver, they are usually found out Walker ts sure 1. was all a dastardly P*fore they wo Te ee antl-Walker plot, ‘The whole town ‘Webster defines it as a parasite la talking. person talebraror, un informer in There is much indignation, general “to flatter mounly and of ficiouslty; to inform against or tet! tales for the purpose of gaining fa- vor” I must agree with this man. Thera ts no oreature mare d euble Uvan he who runs down sno in order to gain something himself, (o the sum and substance of the term “aycophant." I know of a very pathetic case of whem two young women Worked te gether tn an office, One of thom hud been in the employ some years and rather resented the newcomer who showed signa of considerable progreas r that in the work she had to do. In fact, thie young Woman yas very much interested in her She sought ways and moans for Aiding her em- ployer. Just as it should be. The person who takes a job and works to make it better and easier for the ons who employs him is build~ Ing strong for himself. I remember my old Gopybook adage which ran something like or he who always does his best, will better grow; but he who shirks or ekights his task, he lets the better ~.” Now this young woman of whom [ epeak exemplified this very old suy- ing. She did not only want, to do work but workmanship, There is a great difference, ‘The one just “gots by" but the other leads to aumething So she proceeded to build up a new system of Bling which for that par- Goular business was a very excellent one, The employer noticed it and commended her for it Not only this, Kd imoreased her pay on account THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1920 The Philosophical Fish Tells Pansy of Submarine World Where He Rules Frogs and Water People ~ “Old Stick-in-the-Mud” and Sootypootypuff, the Crow, Have an Argument That Ends in a Battle. Cnnwnnwrrrrrrrrnnrrrrrrrrrrrnnnrrnnn. Another Instalment of the Whimsical Fairy Stories of ti Roumanian Queen. By Marie, Queen of Roumania. most ’ ARAAA nm Nene: ‘The old fish's snout reappeared, and immediately he said: “One dons not need to sit on the bo jet branch of a tree lculous dark wings to music is.” pompous!" “And oof!” mimicked the fi are insolent!" ‘That's my was ped the crow. It's a cheap way,” growled the carp. Wel, it'e been dear enough to me,* croaked the feathered one, “Now, now!" interrupted Dame Dammydimmydoo; “you are both much too personal, and that’s not at “ “Old Stick-in-the-Mud” is « philose- pher of the Aquatio School. all instructive, My little companion and I wanted to be edified by your conversation, and if you only bicker @t each other we «re wasting our time listening to you.”" “{ must retire a moment to retr.oh mymif,” said old Stick-in-the-Mud in Q decidedly hufty volce, yet in tones which well showed that he had In no wise given up the discussion, and was atill ready to take up the fray afresh at any moment, Sootypootypulf threw back his head, opened) wide bis bewk, and guraled gleefully in his throat, bending over the pond, saw f the old carp's snout dis- water, whilat a lot of mounted to the surface as if h narrow-necked bottle were being filled with Hquld Pe hape he'll come back,” said Pansy: “he does interest me. T only wish I could #ee how buge he really is. “He much overmtes hie import- ance,” sqapped. the crow ) “That's beeatse you imagine your. welf something quite oxtraordinary,” was Pansy's hasty retort. “Please don't begin to argue, you two," pleaded the old lady, “becnuse I know you'll never be able to and {t's only a waste of energy good humor. But here comes the old Wajer-hermit — he’s taken fresh breath with which to meet his oppoe nent." (Capyriéit, 1020, te The Rell Syndicate, Ine) —CSHIAT IS A SYCOPHANY? “Is Constable Pees t-———" BY SOOHIE TRENE LOEB—~ Covrright, 1990, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), All of thin waa not to the Wicimg of the older employee who had grown into her job, ag it were, and seemed to be willing to let well enough alone. TM does happen tke this occasionally with older workers. They think they are sc firmly ontrenohed that nothing will root them out. In other words, they don't grow with thelr job, So she did not like it—the employ~ ers appreciation of the new girl, she proceeded to make life miserable for her and every ttle mistake that this younger worker made she drew to the attention of the employer and inadvertently sompared her own ef- fiolency with the seeming shortcom- Ing of her young associate, Now this man was a very busy und to make a long story short, one day when he was in a work of considerable elgnificance, the tale- bearer came to him with a mistake thet had been made by the other ® In his anxiety to gat rid of the whole business and having heard #0 much complaint from this Worker, ihe sald: “Oh, well, let her go and get somebody Whioh was done The sycophant had accomplished her purpose but not for long. It hage ened that thie gin sought @ poal- the same basiness with whieh had now had some experience and ed employment with a man who was a icreat fiend of her foriner em-= ployer. These two men came together one day and the second employer suin what a splendid worker he (the first employer) had let go from hia estab. nt and haw valuable she had to the now man mer employer 's work undermined by was Deing constantly y er. It Was not long be- h fore the phant lost"her Job and never did et as good a one as she had, while girl whom she had tnied to injure went forward in leaps and bounds, The day came when she was quite near the top and her former enemy came to seek @ position with EKavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves. Talebearers fare the same, but sycophants ere the worst of all since they hurt others to ry for themselves, They usually and to ae 7 ‘ , i